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From Politics to Terrorism? Canada’s dangerous redefinition of Nigeria’s democracy

Daily Dispatch August 14, 2025

By Olufemi Soneye When a Canadian federal court recently declared Nigeria’s two largest political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as terrorist organisations under Canadian law, it wasn’t just an immigration decision. It was a

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What Happened In the Matter of Bayo Ojulari?

Daily Dispatch August 14, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) is an animal that eats its curator for lunch. To survive it, either do not get close or prepare to feed this beast with an endless supply of oil deals, the country’s lifeblood.When former Governor Nasir El-Rufai accused NNPC of being a parallel government and […]

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Keyamo and His “Kwamfortable” Grace

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2025

By Kunle Awosiyan In the face of sin, we often forget the place of grace. We rush to call for punishment, especially when the sin is captured through the unforgiving lens of citizen journalists. Before the age of social media, it was the camera of a professional photojournalist that preserved the evidence for courtrooms where […]

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Ojulari: True, true, na only face we fit see…

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2025

By Bola BOLAWOLEturnpot@gmail.com 0807 552 5533, 0803 251 0193, 0705 263 1058. (Published in my TREASURES column on the back page of the New Telegraph newspaper edition of Wednesday, 13 August, 2025). “If the Super Falcons can come back from two goals down to turn the tables and win, why not Tinubu? And Morocco is […]

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Jonathan’s second term bid and the ADC challenge

Daily Dispatch August 13, 2025

By Zainab Suleiman Okino Until last week or so, citizens observing political developments in Nigeria had given up on the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), a party that was in power for the first 16 years of this republic. The party was so decimated that within the last two years, when the ruling APC under the […]

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Setting the Records Straight: The True Founders of the APC:

Daily Dispatch August 12, 2025

Chief Okoi Obono-Obla The human memory is incredibly short—especially in Nigeria, where politics is played in such a cavalier manner. There is always a tendency to tweak or twist stories to suit a particular narrative that some political juggernauts want to weave to advance their agenda. The All Progressives Congress (APC) was founded just twelve […]